BELGIAN NEUTRALITY.
Sir Frederick Pollock, the eminent jurist, said at the Atlantic Union : “ Germany, with all the Great Powers, was bound by solemn and fundamental treaties to respect Belgian neutrality. Those treaties were evidently intended to be operative in time of war ; they are ot no other use. But the Prussian military party proclaimed that no treaty whatever is binding on a belligerent who thinks to find military advantage in breaking it; and this they, impudently call a necessity which knows no law. The public law of Europe and of the civilised world knows nothing of any such necessities. If they were admitted there would be no reason for any nation to trust the most explicit assurances of any other. So long as there is any care for justice in the world, and any nation that prefers justice and honour to ease, only one answer was possible ; and we gave that answer. War was declared in Eondori, but history will say that it was made by the first German soldier who set foot on Belgian soil.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1307, 6 October 1914, Page 4
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176BELGIAN NEUTRALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1307, 6 October 1914, Page 4
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